DIPLOMA
While many of the absurd creatures that cavort in the ceramic series"Hanebüchen" in which an intensive irresponsible game is played with pop-cultural trifles, other object works with obviously a little more serious topics but in an equally subtle way. A “hairstyle” turns out to be a helmet, dummy tools are presented, and ceramic ax shimmers metallically.
A series of towers or stelae could have come from the set of a science fiction or fantasy film. The gargoyles of cathedrals and churches or the display of goods in a hardware store, seem to be role models here, as do the weathered stone figures of old Breton wayside crosses.
In many ways, these works appear powerful, expansive, and coarse.
But on closer inspection, they reveal filigree details. They are surreal objects, some brightly colored, others appear weathered as if they have fallen out of time.
Similarities are particularly striking to the pictures of the "Renaître"
series or to the drawings from the fictional "Book of Demons", from whose thematic and pictorial world those ceramic works like the"Katzenreiter" (cat rider) seem to come.
The object names are, as always, imaginatively irresponsible, sometimes with a socially critical undertone, they then, with a wink, they simply just describe a possible use, such as "sideboard decoration".
While many of the absurd creatures that cavort in the ceramic series"Hanebüchen" in which an intensive irresponsible game is played with pop-cultural trifles, other object works with obviously a little more serious topics but in an equally subtle way. A “hairstyle” turns out to be a helmet, dummy tools are presented, and ceramic ax shimmers metallically.
A series of towers or stelae could have come from the set of a science fiction or fantasy film. The gargoyles of cathedrals and churches or the display of goods in a hardware store, seem to be role models here, as do the weathered stone figures of old Breton wayside crosses.
In many ways, these works appear powerful, expansive, and coarse.
But on closer inspection, they reveal filigree details. They are surreal objects, some brightly colored, others appear weathered as if they have fallen out of time.
Similarities are particularly striking to the pictures of the "Renaître"
series or to the drawings from the fictional "Book of Demons", from whose thematic and pictorial world those ceramic works like the"Katzenreiter" (cat rider) seem to come.
The object names are, as always, imaginatively irresponsible, sometimes with a socially critical undertone, they then, with a wink, they simply just describe a possible use, such as "sideboard decoration".
